Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 734 · Decided 18 May 2025
Shaurabh Kumar Tripathi v. Vidhi Rawal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 734 · [2025] 6 S.C.R. 545
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2688/2025
- Decided
- 18 May 2025
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, UJJAL BHUYAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- BNSS Section 528, 223; CrPC Section 482, 528, 200; Domestic Violence Act Section 12, 528, 482
Headnote
Whether the High Court can invoke its inherent jurisdiction u/s.482, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 or s.528, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 to quash proceedings initiated u/s.12, Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. Criminal Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 - s.528 - Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 (DV Act) - s.12 - Exercise of power of High Court u/s.482, CrPC (s.528, BNSS) to quash proceedings u/s.12, DV Act - Permissibility: Held: High Courts can exercise power u/s.482,
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